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Military service
Service number:
R/68714
Age:
20
Rank:
Warrant Officer Class II
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
401 Sqdn.
Birth:
July 7, 1922
Fort William, Ontario
Enlistment:
October 25, 1940
Fort William, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
38. G. 12.
Additional information
Son of John William and Doris Amy Burton Rowthorn, of Port Arthur, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn
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Photo of William Rowthorn
W.O.2 W.M. Rowthorn, RCAF, died August 19, 1942 as a result of injuries over France. <p> <i> Photo courtesy of Hillcrest High School - <b>"Stairway of Honour"</B> project. Eighty-four large portraits of students from the Second World War line both sides of the 55 stairs leading up to the school's auditorium. Most of the portraits have the rank and year of death of the student. Some portraits explain how the soldier died, but many were MIA and presumed dead. Each year, teachers from the grade 10 Canadian History course take their students to the stairway around November 11th to complete a project that deals directly with the pictures on the Stairway of Honour.</i> <p> -
Temporary grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … name on the panels that surround the Altar … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … the Altar … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Church
Warrant Office Class II William Ellis Rowthorn is also commemorated at St George's Royal Air Force Chapel of Remembrance - Biggin Hill … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Class II William Ellis Rowthorn
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 111 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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